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Gennadij Roždestvenskij (anecdote)

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The whole hall was lighted by sunshine... (S.R.)
Gennadij Roždestvenskij
An anecdote 



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I chose Scriabin's Prometheus, playing it with the composer's behest in mind: 

“Light must fill the hall, it must pervade the  entire atmosphere. . . .” 
I believe we achieved that, although Scriabin was talking about color effects. 

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Once, after a concert of Sergei Prokofiev's works,Svyatoslav Richter said:

"What a wonderful day it was!"(The concert had been held in the daytime, in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory).   "The whole hall was lighted by sunshine; thousands of colors surrounded me, just like in Scriabin's music. I wanted to play so much, compose, create.”
Of course, when he spoke of color and light, Richter did not mean an electronic machine grammed for certain color effects. What he had in mind was the creation of a new musical fabric born in the process of performance, in the process of improvisation.

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From Soviet Life.
Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA, 1968


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